New Summer – New Lessons on LingQ!

The summer is here with new inspiration for our language studies! Our summer formula is pretty simple: happy and enjoyable learning = sun + smile + interesting content. If you are missing the last component, please check out our new lessons added to the site over the last month. Pick something of interest in your language and enjoy your summer LingQing!

These text and audio for these lessons was obtained from http://www.slow-chinese.com/. A new lesson is published on this site almost every week. In the LingQ version I have included a Pinyin transcription of the text. If you enjoy the lessons, you could visit the website and make a small donation.Lessons in Course: 2, New This Month: 2

This course is for beginning students in English. This course gives examples of different grammatical concepts using simple sentences. It is intended for beginners with little to no knowledge of English.Lessons in Course: 11, New This Month: 11

You can find Grammar rules in my collections ‘Step by Step’ and ‘English Grammar and Vocabulary’ but not in this collection. In this collection you will be able to brush up your Grammar skills as it contains examples, and patterns of use of the most important rules and structures. Most of the lessons are prepared by the language teacher from St. Petersburg Evgueny40, and checked and recorded by native English speakersLessons in Course: 11, New This Month: 3

This collection consists of conversations that Evgueny40 from St Petersburg has had with English and German native speakers from different countries where these languages are native. You can listen to and compare different accents and different lifestiles. I believe that after listening to these conversations we will get to know each other better and enjoy studying these languages together.Lessons in Course: 81, New This Month: 1

In this collection my native speakers and I discuss and explain some difficult problems of English Grammar and word usage. Grammar isn’t the main goal in language studying. But without some basic grammar you can’t make up your phrases in English correctly and consequently you can’t express yourself properly. That’s why I hope this collection will be interesting and useful for all English learners.Lessons in Course: 44, New This Month: 1

Studying English is not always easy. But it can be less difficult if we can smile while studying. That’s why I’ve collected some jokes, humorous anecdotes and funny stories to make your study easier. They aren’t difficult and are for students of all levels from Beginner 2 and higher. Let’s smile and laugh!Lessons in Course: 65, New This Month: 3

English native speakers use words naturally and without a lot of thought. The same as you do in your native language. But foreigners often use the words wrongly using clumsy phrases, and constructing unnatural sentences. That’s why I’ve started this collection “How to use words” where I will give you some useful examples of using English words. Of course, my English speaking friends check my examples and help me in recording them. Enjoy your English and use words correctly!Lessons in Course: 13, New This Month: 2

In this collection you’ll find some interesting facts of our life and also some recommendations for the study of the foreign languages from my teacher’s experience. The most of materials are written by Evgueny40 and read by the English native speakers.Lessons in Course: 42, New This Month: 1

It’s a collection for absolute beginners /Das ist die Sammlung für Anfänger/ Это уроки английского для начинающих. They were written by Evgueny40 and read by English native speakers, first of all by Nerelle Poroch. Enjoy your English!Lessons in Course: 92, New This Month: 2

This is a collection for beginners so that they can learn some basic words and English structures. I wish to thank my English native speaking friends, and most of all Nerelle Poroch, for their help in recording these dialogues.Lessons in Course: 33, New This Month: 1

The phone conversations are the essential part of our everyday life nowadays. They are a bit different in every language. That’s why I started to upload these conversations in English, German and Russian to help you to have practice at them in different languages. Here there are some English phone conversations. I thank my friends Nerelle Poroch and Tim Coyle for giving help in the correction and recording them.Lessons in Course: 23, New This Month: 2

English is now the richest world language according to the words. The foreign learners often get confused in usage of them. In this collection Evgueny40 tries to clarify the differences in the meaning and usage of some similar words in the discussions with English native speakers. It could be useful and interesting for the learners of different levels from Beginner II to Intermediate II.Lessons in Course: 19, New This Month: 1

This is a collection of interesting short stories for levels Beginner-2 and Intermediate-1. They contain basic words and principal grammar structures which help you to improve your English. The stories were written or were found and abridged by Evgueny 40, and then corrected and recorded by English native speakers. I thank them all for their cooperation and especially my old friend Nerelle Poroch. Please read, listen and enjoy your English!Lessons in Course: 17, New This Month: 1

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference on the West Coast each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TED Talks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize. http://www.ted.com/termsofuseLessons in Course: 3, New This Month: 1

This is a collection of some observations on modern life and some interesting facts on the traditions and the history of different countries. The most of podcasts are written by Evgueny40 and translated or corrected, and recorded by English native speakers. The world around us is diverse, but always interesting, isn’t it?Lessons in Course: 15, New This Month: 2

Recordings and transcripts of everyday Japanese conversations provided by JLA. For more, check out their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Listening-Advanced/471552702887770?fref=tsLessons in Course: 2, New This Month: 2

“Kim Youngha’s “Reading Time” blog is a delightful collection of recollections and opinions and narrations from world literature, by Kim Youngha, a leading Korean author, whose work has been translated into a dozen languages. Please visit his blog at http://www.podbbang.com/ch/1749 or his official website at http://kimyoungha.com/.”Lessons in Course: 121, New This Month: 84

Norwegian Simple Daily Stories In this series of lessons, I will make lessons that will give you vocabulary to manage in the Norwegian Daily life. The 4 first lessons can be find here: http://www.lingq.com/learn/no/library/courses/89658/Lessons in Course: 21, New This Month: 21

Easy Russian content for absolute beginners.If you are going to study Russian FROM SCRATCH, I advise you to start with this set of lessons “ПЕРВЫЕ ШАГИ”(FIRST STEPS). The collection contents monologs and dialogs spoken by Evgueny40 at a slow speed and added by comments in English.The goal is to give you basic vocabulary and structures of Russian.Lessons in Course: 115, New This Month: 1

This is a new collection for absolute beginners. I start it with a lesson about the Russian alphabet, or the Cyrillic alphabet, because a lot of beginners complain again and again that they don’t understand Cyrillic letters. I don’t think it’s so difficult, but I try as easy as possible to tell you about the Russian letters with a lot of examples, and after that I gradually introduce you to Russian basic words and main constructions. I believe that this introductory course of Russian will enable you to get ready for various podcasts and first conversations in Russian.Lessons in Course: 66, New This Month: 1

Putin referred to those who oppose his Ukrainian policies as “fifth columnists”. Echo Moskvi is high on the list of “enemy” media in Russia. Here are some interesting interviews, mostly, but not only, with people who oppose Putin’s Ukrainian policies. Freedom of expression still exists in Russia, even if limited by the government’s control of most of the media and their recent crackdowns on the expression of dissident views.Lessons in Course: 6, New This Month: 1